Okay, each year I create a new set of goals for both my personal and professional life.  This year and for the purposes of this blog, I thought I’d give you guys an inside track to what I’m thinking about what I want to accomplish this year.  In my office, I keep a standard white board where I display both my monthly and yearly goals. Each time I come into my office, I’m reminded of the commitments I’m made to myself each month.  This helps keep me accountable to my goals and recaptures that motivational spark that I was feeling at the exact moment I originally wrote down my goals.

High Level Yearly Goals:

So what’s on the agenda for this year?  At a high level, the normal things.

Lose weight: I’m trying to get down to 200 lbs by the summer ideally.  Currently I’m 242 lbs (down from 251 lbs 10 weeks ago…I know my weight lose has been relatively slow). To make this goal by the summer, I’m planning on either taking a self defense class (I used to be really good in Shotokan Karate) and/or practice exercising with my wife.

Grow My Relationship:  This includes taking vacations with my wife, joining prayer groups together, and get involved in various outright ministries with my wife.  Common interest and activities with my wife will definitely make us grow.

Grow Our Family Assets:   Basically store up a 12 month emergency fund (we’ve already stored up a 6 month fund so I need to adjust my goals).  To do this, I’ll definitely need to work a little harder in my internet business to grow.

I know I might have gotten a little off track in my description of goals as many of my readers are more concerned about how I’m planning to grow my business.  So to those readers, I’ve not forgotten about you.

February Business Goals:

The month of January got off to a slow start.  However, I’ve been able to use my free time to brainstorm new ideas and areas I’d like my business to follow.  For the past few years I’ve been heavily invested in CPA marketing for a pay per click standpoint and  I don’t plan on giving any of that up.  However, I know the time is ripe to start expanding into other traffic areas.  This being said, I’ve identified 3 other traffic sources / businesses I’ll be focusing on in the coming month and year.  They are the following:  SEO (Search Engine Optimization – Free Organic Traffic), Mobile Phone Marketing (Iphone / Android Applications and Ads), Online Gaming Advertising (In Game Ads).

1.)  Search Engine Optimization:

I love free traffic.  You don’t have to pay for it!  This being said, I’m planning on creating more websites that will act as affiliate sites with the express purpose of naturally ranking high in Google / Yahoo / Bing.  This will be a year long endeavor as you know SEO rankings can take a lot of time.

2.)  Mobile Phone Marketing:

The mobile market is exploding right now.  One of my online mentors readily identified this sometime early last year and began creating IPhone applications and publishing them in the Itune Appstore.  Currently he’s making thousands a month in profit on his free and paid apps.  My plan for this year is to follow in his footsteps to do something similar.  I’m still brain storming my application ideas, but I’m sure I’ll have something to share with you guys in the upcoming weeks!

3.)  Online Gaming Advertising

Online gaming is a market that is ripe for the picking in terms of eyeballs and ad traffic.    What a lot of people don’t know is that you can actually place ads inside of games that people play online. Because most people again focus on Google, Yahoo, and Bing, I will have little competition coming in advertising on gaming apps. Yet another source of revenue for my products and CPA offers.  I just have to find the right offer to marry up with the right gaming ad network.

There are other misc goals for the month of February detailed in the picture that are pretty straight forward.  Trying to capitalize on Valentines day with various flower delivery offers and dating offers.   I’ll report back in a couple of weeks to let you know how that faired.

Till next update, see you all.   Don’t forget to post comments.

Ollie James Hales